Heroes and Villains: The Effects of Heroism on Autocratic Values and Nazi Collaboration in Frances

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Cage, Julia; Dagorret, Anna; Grosjean, Pauline; Jha, Saumitra
• 署名单位: Center for Economic & Policy Research (CEPR); Stanford University
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0002-8282
• DOI: 10.1257/aer.20211509
• 发表日期: 2023
• 页码: 1888-1932
• 关键词: WAR; leadership; rise

摘要

We measure how a network of heroes can legitimize and diffuse extreme political behaviors. We exploit newly declassified intelli-gence files, novel voting data, and regimental histories to show that home municipalities of French line regiments arbitrarily rotated under Philippe Petain's generalship through the heroic World War I battlefield of Verdun diverge politically thereafter, particularly fol-lowing Petain's own overt espousal of authoritarian views. Further, under Petain's collaborationist Vichy regime ( 1940-1944), they raise percent more active Nazi collaborators per capita. These effects extend across all forms of Nazi collaboration and diffuse beyond the veterans themselves. (JEL D72, D74, N34, N44, Z13)